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upon the patience © f our readers ; but the great importance of the work itself , and the increasing spread of our Repository Tender it desirable to make our
examination of the Improved Version as complete as our circumstances will allow . Respecting the Introduction , vse have little to say . It is
evidently drawn up by the hand oi a Blaster ; and exhibits the clearest general view of the subjects of which it treats , that we have ever seen . It is concise , but compre *
Art . II . Sertnons for the Use , * - Hews Bransby . 2 vola . 12 mo Co . 4 cc This publication , " says , the editor in his preface , ** is designed to supply Unitarian-Christians
with some serious impressive discourses , unexceptionable to them in point of religious doctrine , and calculated to assist in fprmingavnd strengthening habits of enlightened devotion and active virtue . "
The utility of such an undertaking will scarcely be disputed . There are undoubtedly many volumes of excellent practical discourses in the world , and many selections have been made
for the use of fatnilies ; but few or none of these have been perfectly consistent with rational views of Christianity . Unitarians have unavoidably been much occupied in defending their
principles . Their numbers have hitjierto been comparatively small . On these accounts ^ the sermons and practical treatises published immediately by them ? could not be numerous ; though no denomination of Christians could attach to the practical part of religion greater importance . In
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hensive and correct ; and it has given , and will give to many to whom the discussion of those sub ., jects was before inaccessible , dis-. tinct and highly useful ideas rei specting them . If the work were
not accessible to every one , we should be tempted to make copious extracts from the Introduction : as it is , what we have said
must suffice ; and in our next number we hope to continue , our critique according to the plar * . which we have laid down . of Families * Selected by James
pp . $ 12 , 1808 . Longman and this state , they were obliged to , re
sort to the sermons and treatises of other divines , profit by what they could approve of ^ and reject what appeared to be erroneous .
But of late many serious and judicious discourses have been pub-, lished on principles strictly Unitarian . Still there was wanting for the use of families a set of
discourses on the most important practical subjects , adapted to every understanding and calculated to make an impression on the conscience of every hearer . This defect we think well supplied ; by the present selection . We
therefore heartily wish that the undertaking may be duly encouraged . Unitarians who are desirous to promote a temper and conduct consistent with , their profession , cannot perhaps do better for that end , than to patronise this valuable selection of practical sermons . They are thirty in number , and come recommended . by the revered names of Drs . Priestley , Jebb and Cla ^ k of America \ of the late Mr . Kcnri < rk *
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1 D £ Heviexv * — -Bran $ by s Sermons for the Use of Families
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/46/
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